Inscribed to a Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author, with Ephemera

October Fever [Signed, Numbered]

Evans, George Bird

Publication: [Bruceton Mills, WV]: Old Hemlock, 1989. First Edition.

Notes: Grouse hunting essays. Illustrated with halftone photographs by Kay Evans who accompanied George on almost every hunt but only shot birds with her camera.

[10], 164, [2] pages. Bound in a red leather-pattern book cloth stamped in gilt on the spine and front board. In a black paper-covered slipcase.

Limited to 1250 numbered copies.

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a near fine slipcase. Not issued in a dust jacket.

This is Neil Sheehan's copy and it has his standard number, 942. The book is inscribed, "For Neil Sheehan—In my dreams I tread these words again and see the flaming Indian summer leaves. George Bird Evans & Kay. Old Hemlock Christmas 1989."

A nice association copy. Neil Sheehan wrote the foreword to Evans's book Opus 10. He won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bright and Shining Lie. Neil and his wife Susan, who also won a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, had a rural retreat, Wrong Way Flowing River Farm, at the headwaters of the Youghiogheny River, about 30 miles from the Evans' homestead, Old Hemlock. Evans's manuscript "Shooting Notes" for 1982 at West Virginia University includes an account of hunting with Sheehan on October 28, 1982.

Laid into this copy is a postcard prospectus for the book addressed to the Sheehans and initialed by Evans as well as an autograph postcard from Kay signed with her and George's initials.

Item No: #366391

Price: $300